Unnatural Quotes

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Once you`ve tasted a bit of success, it`s more challenging. We have to continue to be willing to take a risk so that we don`t get too safe. Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose. So the better place to keep yourself in is out of your comfort zone, willing to try even at the risk of failing. And that`s not natural to me at all. In fact, it`s completely unnatural.

- Demi Moore

(on his transformation into Patrick Bateman for American Psycho (2000)) The character is so vain and obsessed with his looks. While the psychology of the character was something that I could perform, you can`t fake the physicality. Being English, I tend to enjoy going down to the pub far more than going to the gym, so it was very unnatural for me. I just had to convince myself that I loved it, which was the most difficult thing about playing this part. Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it`s true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have. I found I had to stop thinking when I was in the gym because if I thought about it, I`d realize how ridiculous it was that I was pumping iron when I could`ve been out having a drink and a cigarette and enjoying some lunch. I did three hours a day for six weeks with a personal trainer and some time before that. I ate an awful lot during training and then almost nothing during filming.

- Christian Bale

When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.

- Helena Christensen

The first thing that happens is that you`re overwhelmed by so much attention. It`s just so unnatural. Only people who`ve been in that position can realize what it`s like. I mean, you have to be there.

- Chevy Chase

On his transformation into Patrick Bateman for American Psycho (2000): "The character is so vain and obsessed with his looks. While the psychology of the character was something that I could perform, you can`t fake the physicality. Being English, I tend to enjoy going down to the pub far more than going to the gym, so it was very unnatural for me. I just had to convince myself that I loved it, which was the most difficult thing about playing this part. Working out is incredibly boring. I swear its true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have. I found I had to stop thinking when I was in the gym because if I thought about it, I`d realize how ridiculous it was that I was pumping iron when I could`ve been out having a drink and a cigarette and enjoying some lunch. I did three hours a day for six weeks with a personal trainer and some time before that. I ate an awful lot during training and then almost nothing during filming."

- Christian Bale

(On Method actors) It is hard to dig them because they move like hermit crabs - they have to have a shell to crawl into and they don`t want anyone to get to know them ... They are offbeat and strange and always thinking about themselves. They are always asking themselves, `Where do I fit in; what`s in it for me?`. These youngsters are doing it the hard way. They make a thorough study of being natural and being unnatural. The girls go around looking like they`re made up for a death scene in a hospital room. I don`t know why if a girl goes out in public she wants to make herself look ugly instead of a little bit attractive. (1958)

- Gary Cooper

Naturalness is hard to talk about, but I guess it boils down to this: You find out what people expect of your type of character and then you give them what they want. That way an actor never seems unnatural or affected no matter what role he plays.

- Gary Cooper

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it`s not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.

- Neve Campbell

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

- Nigella Lawson

On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can`t watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn`t make any sense, does it?

- Sharon Tate

There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they`ll allow me to explore another direction to go until we`re all comfortable with what we are doing.

- George Eads

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

- Jessica Lange

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they`re about dead people. Paintings you don`t think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I`m looking at something dead.

- David Bailey

Anyone who lives, as I do, in a world of imagination must make an enormous and unnatural effect to be factual in the ordinary sense. I confess I would be a terrible witness in court because of this-and a terrible journalist. I feel compelled to a story the way I see it and this is seldom the way it happened, in all its documentary detail.

- Federico Fellini

We weren`t built to fly. We can do it, but we shouldn`t be surprised if it feels a little unnatural.

- Picabo Street

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

- Joshua Reynolds

Getting butterflies I don`t think is a nervousness that`s unnatural, ... If you don`t get butterflies in a game, I don`t think you`re excited, you`re not ready to go.

- Matt Baker

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

- Adnan Pachachi

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

- Andre Bakhos

The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities, some considered to be unnatural.

- Andy Oldfield

The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

- Anna Kastner

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us

- Robinson Jeffers

Life isn`t stable. Stability is unnatural. The only stable society is the police state. You can have a free society or you can have a stable society. You can`t have both. Take your choice. As for me, I`ll choose a free, organic society over a rigid, artificial society any day.

- Tom Robbins